Art Prints - Artists

oh back in the day it was here, but the earliest saving at archive.org is january 9th 2002 as shown here, but penwith.co.uk was first registered january 2nd 1998 which makes it, i believe, the oldest website in all of penwith

art of europe then went off to its own domain november 13th 1998, and fine art prints on demand to its own domain october 12th 2005

& art prints on canvas, etc = prints prints by artist timeline - or with images

ALMA-TADEMA

Dutch (1836-1912)

art prints for girls, or for slightly pervy boys perhaps

ANGELICO

Italian (c.1400-1455)

poster-boy gigolo artist from the grotto... for cathoilcs, lapsed or not, or thereabouts

BLAKE

English (1757-1827)

for dr seuss we presume - praise the lord!

BOSCH

Dutch (1453-1516)

bish bash

BOTTICELLI

Italian (1455-1510)

from out of the afghan mountains, a zarasustran artist in a pinafore dress, with an ak47 and a poesy

BRAQUE

French (1882-1963)

BRUEGHEL

Flemish (c.1525-1569)

or bruegel if you prefer, as in pete, the daddy

CANALETTO

Italian (1697-1768)

antonio, antonio, wherefore art thou antonio... in london? london?

CARAVAGGIO

Italian (1573-1610)

it's killer prints for killer gays

CEZANNE

French (1839-1906)

art for those not too keen on soap and water, allegedly
cezanne on canvas

CHAGALL

Russian (1887-1985)

more art prints for girls, for dirty girls especially

CHARDIN

French (1699-1779)

pots, pans, and pencils, the prints therof

CLAUDE LORRAIN

French (1600-1682)

art prints for transexuals i'm told, no idea why

CONSTABLE

English (1776-1837)

for pre-modernists everywhere
constable on canvas

COROT

French (1796-1875)

as above, for frenchies

COURBET

French (1819-1877)

naughty naughty, poesy poesy... is it important? really? really?

DALI

Spanish (1904-1989)

art prints for teens and crazies

DAVID

French (1748-1825)

reasons for the revolution? of all the artists in all the world...

DEGAS

French (1834-1917)

not just for voyeurs and girly gays... i happen to like a bit of degas
degas on canvas

DE HOOCH

Dutch (c.1629-c.1684)

vermeer in the suburbs

DELACROIX

French (1798-1863)

yeah yeah, when the fighting's over

DUCHAMP

French (1887-1968)

who's for a piss?

DUFY

French (1877-1953)

do what? do what do what? it's summer holiday time! we're all going on a... to the riviera!

DURER

German (1471-1528)

he's just an engraver, and a german to boot, shouldn't even be here

EL GRECO

Spanish (1541-1614)

dom to his friends

FRAGONARD

French (1732-1806)

rococo frivolity
fragonard on canvas

FRIEDRICH

German (1774-1840)

wagner sans the music, sans the words

GAINSBOROUGH

English (1727-1788)

rococo with a stiff upper lip

GAUGUIN

French (1848-1903)

oh, the debauchery, the pain, the loss... tahitian shenanigans
gauguin on canvas

GERICAULT

French (1791-1824)

died a bit young, nearly coulda been somebody, y'know, like marlon

GIORGIONE

Italian (1477-1510)

the sleeping venus, the tempest...

GOYA

Spanish (1746-1828)

a matured wine, the older he got, the better he got - woof-woof

GRIMSHAW

English (1836-1893)

from whitby to scarborough to the city docks, from southwark to battersea to an old english house, to a lady in a garden; we take a moonlight walk, we walk a moonlit road; under the moonbeams, watching a moonlit lake... and all, so long ago - and london bridge is falling down, falling down - and this is the way the world ends, we in the evening to autumn, and night and beyond - i grow old... i grow old

HOGARTH

English (1697-1764)

it's understandable (is it?), that it's often lawyers and solicitors buy gin lane - something to do with how they make their money i suppose, stuffing their pockets from the laws cooked up by governments, etc

HOKUSAI

Japanese (1760-1849)

oh, y'know... that great wave
and that mountain

HOLBEIN

German (c.1479-1543)

like handel and holst, like george the third, a mannerist nearly

INGRES

French (1780-1867)

no mate of monet's

KANDINSKY

Russian (1866-1944)

you having a laugh?

KLEE

Swiss (1879-1940)

art prints for cuckoo-clock lovers in the digital age

KLIMT

Austrian (1862-1918)

up pompeii goes to vienna, so, it's said
but i grow tired of his women - i now prefer to the woods, the trees, as in the birch wood, the beech forest, and the pine forest
klimt on canvas

KOKOSCHKA

Austrian (1886-1980)

definitely not for mahler lovers, like my good self! you want mahler?

LAUTREC

French (1864-1901)

pics for pixies

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Italian (1452-1519)

prints for elves (so, leonardo da vinci)
da vinci on canvas

LOWRY

English (1887-1976)

and ee by gumm

MAGRITTE

Belgian (1898-1967)

there's a hole in my bum, look

MANET

French (1832-1883)

impressionism for pseudo-intellectuals? is it? no it isn't, actually!

MARC

German (1880-1916)

anthropomorphic animism, is it? in red?

MATISSE

French (1869-1954)

modernism for the petit-bourgeois, and all that jazz

MICHELANGELO

Italian (1475-1564)

got lumbago? get a michelangelo! be inspired!
michelangelo on canvas

MILLAIS

English (1829-1896)

girly prints for girly west ham united fans

MILLET

French (1814-1875)

like going to church in a donkey jacket, and all the better for that

MIRO

Spanish (1893-1983)

are you mad?

MODIGLIANI

Italian (1884-1920)

i'm mad about girls, me

MONDRIAN

Dutch (1872-1944)

from amsterdam to manhattan, is that a straight line? a guide a guilder a go-go

MONET

French (1840-1926)

well, some like their houses of parliament like this, but i prefer them like this, by turner, burning
monet on canvas

MUCHA

Czech (1860-1939)

it's pics for old people who think they're young and beautiful, i guess

MUNCH

Norwegian (1860-1944)

yeah yeah, we're all going to die

PICASSO

Spanish (1881-1973)

pics for pipsqueaks, boom

PISSARRO

French (1830-1903)

it's papa impressionism

RAPHAEL

Italian (1483-1520)

the boy renaissance - the pretty-boy poster-boy, and never the man it's said

REDON

French (1840-1916)

it's art prints on canvas, or hemp, for hippies

REMBRANDT

Dutch (1606-1669)

but if your favourite colour's brown... or golden
rembrandt on canvas

RENOIR

French (1841-1919)

not +the+ renoir, this the monet sidekick, for grandmas and gerbils

REYNOLDS

English (1723-1792)

tosh for toffs?

ROSSETTI

English (1828-1882)

art prints for girls in laura ashley dresses

ROUSSEAU

French (1844-1910)

not +the+ rousseau, not even +the+ henri

RUBENS

Flemish (1577-1640)

for fat tarts and diplomats

SEURAT

French (1859-1891)

and the point is?

SISLEY

French (1839-1899)

posters on canvas for the serious impressionist

STUBBS

English (1724-1806)

nags and dogs, the women of england
stubbs on canvas

TINTORETTO

Italian (1518-1594)

belgian ice-cream, snow-capped mountains... nah, not my cup of tea

TITIAN

Italian (1477-1576)

this vat of vin is more the thing, but this just a little corked for my modern taste

TURNER

English (1775-1851)

re the battle of trafalgar, it wasn't really that the victory was victorious, it was the fighting temeraire what won it - but i expect you knew that.
turner on canvas